From: Sean Warburton <sean_warburton@...>
Date: 2010-01-22T20:32:21+09:00
Subject: Parse a String

Hello,

I wonder if someone would be able to help.

Through necessity I'm learning Ruby and trying to write my own script
and while I am getting there and grasping things more, I'm still on
first rung of the ladder and finding things difficult so please be
patient ;)

Part of my script involves opening a telnet session and then sending a
whois request that returns a lot of text ...

I've managed to get to the point where I have the reply stored in a
variable but what I would now like to do is parse the variable for bits
of the information and I have read and read but can't find something
that I seem to be able to understand.

I have attached a text file with the data that my variable holds and I
need to parse out things like the "Renewal date:" and "Registration
status:". Would anyone be able to offer me some help on how I should go
about parsing.

TIA

Warby

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